Temporary Associate

Kate Spade
- Tsawwassen, BC, CA

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio - a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.
- Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always stood for optimistic femininity. Today, the brand is a global life and style house with handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, gifts, home décor and more. Polished ease, thoughtful details and a modern, sophisticated use of color—Kate Spade New York’s founding principles define a unique style synonymous with joy. Under the vision of creative director Nicola Glass, the brand continues to celebrate confident women with a youthful spirit.
- Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio - a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.

**Job Title: Senior**Sales Associate**

**Primary Purpose**:
**The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in retail to**

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**Client & Service Expert**:

- Achieves individual sales goals.
- Develops strong product knowledge across all categories.
- Responsible for ensuring exemplary customer service by delivering the ultimate kate spade Experience.
- Able to develop a personal connection with guests through effective use of the selling skills.

**Leadership Presence**:

- Achievement of personal sales goals.
- Extensive product knowledge.
- Partner with Store Manager and Assistant Manager to elevate selling culture.
- Partner with Store Manager and Assistant Manager to initiate business driving events in store.

**Building Brand Equity**:

- Ability to understand and communicate the kate spade new york brand aesthetic, brand philosophy and lifestyle to the sales team and customer.
- Build strong relationships with clients as a brand ambassador of the company.
- Communicate client feedback to Store Manager and Assistant Manager to elevate client service and sales.
- Adhere to all company policies and procedures with honesty and integrity.

**Operational Excellence**:

- Perform and supervise store opening and closing procedures including counting register funds, completing bank deposits, opening and closing registers and securing facility.

**The accomplished individual will possess...**
- Strong communication skills
- Proven ability and contribution to an elevated selling culture
- Elevated sense of personal style

**An outstanding professional will have...**
- Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in luxury goods or a comparable retail environment
- Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred

**Physical requirements**
- Available to work store schedule, as needed, including evenings and weekends
- Standing for extended periods of time
- Able to safely lift boxes up to 50 pounds
- Comfortable climbing ladders

**Our Competencies for All Employees**
- **Drive for Results**: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- **Customer Focus**: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- **Creativity**: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- **Interpersonal Savvy**: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- **Learning on the Fly**: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- **Perseverance**: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- **Dealing with Ambiguity**: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can